Ligonier Banner., Volume 54, Number 19A, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 July 1920 — Page 1

TWICE WEEKLY

$£2.00 PER YEAR

MARGARET JUDAY BITTEN BY 00G

CANINE OWNED BY LUTHER REX GROWS JEALOUS OF RIVAL ATTENTIONS :

BURIES TEETH IN CHILD'S ARM Wound Cautorized by Dr. Lane and Every Precaution Taken to Pre. ; vent Complications . . : - : ® Margaret Juday, aged about 14, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Juday residing near Millersburg, was gevere1y bitien on the arm by a collie dog at the home of Luther Rex Sunday af‘ternoon and the child was brought to +the office of Dr. Ldne in this city for surgical attention.. The wound is quite serious but was thoroughly cauterized and it is believed no bad results will follow: e

. The Juday family went to the Rex home Sunday on a social visit and while there the cannie seemed to be Jealous of the attention paid by the Rex family and in a fit of anper leaped uporn the girl and burled its teeth in her arm. The scremms of the child soon brought relief and the dog was beaten off. : : -

"~ Mr. Rex says the collie has been of an unusually friendly disposition and never shown signs of being cross. - Margaret Juday had no thought of danger when she approached the dog and was badly frightened by it unexpected action. Fearing that complications might ensue Mr. Juday brought the child to Ligonier so that the wound might be given careful and sl;illful treatment. _ ‘ : - "The Special Sesslon. : The second special session of the Indiana legislature couvened at Indianapolis Monday afternoon and may legally remain in session forty days. the time fixed by the state constitutiép. _ .

The session was called -by Gorv, Goodrich originally to make appropriateion for. _state jinstitutions whose maintenance funds have been exhausted. Since the call was sent out the state supreme court has rendered a “decision - annulling the action of the state board of tax commission in the matter of making horizontal raises in appraisements of many taxing units of the state and the legislature will be asked to solve this tangle. - . Other changes will be made in the tax law and it is difficult to foretell what may come up as the sessions lengthens. L '

The governor is in hot water over the manner in which the late regular session of the legislature jumbled matters in the state. ;

The governor hopes the members will not try to play politics which is a natural wish when it is considered that the governor has done nothingelse since-he became a candidate.

‘The' democratic minority does not need to play politics to show up the incompetency of the present state administration. The t't that they are in special session to correct errors made through the influence of Gov. Goodrich is politics enough.

- Farmers Want Legislation. The Indiana Farmers Association want legislation from the sp.cial session, The following five measures will be pushed. 1. ,An amendment to the present county agent lay to provide that the county appropriate not less than $l,500 for the expenses of a county agent. 2 A pure seed law. 3. A “blue sky” law to protect investors against fake stock and promotion schemes. ' 4. A law permitting traction lines to haul a¥-classes of freight, including live stock. . 5. An act giving the Indiana public service commission control over all’ stockyards. : | ~ Poultry Inspeetion. County Agent V. D. Widney has arranged for a poultry inspeg.ion trip through the county. All whé care to atend will meet at the court house in Albion Friday morning at nine o’clock July 16. - All are urged to bring their dinner along. i

~ Will Store Wool. Wayne township farmers at a meeting in Kendallville decided to store their- wool and wait develcpmentts. If a favorable sale is not made the pooling of the county wool clip will be made. Swe ; 'NOTICE TO PUBLIC 1 There will be no free delivery. after July 17 from our markets. Our places are open every night except Sunday until 9-o’clock. - 2 e oGk A Green _ Floyd Stellar . I%a4c ~ Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wigton visited Fort Wayne relatives Sunday and Mrs. Wigton will remain there for a

The Tigonier Banner.

’ ROME CITY HAS COAL Two Hundred Car Loads On the Rall. road Siding Between Therc and i Fort Wayne - “Approximately two hundred cars heavily loaded with coal have beea standing on sidings of the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad between Fort Wayne and Rome City for the pst two weeks, notwithstanding 'that the apparent shortage of coal threatens to close many Industries and cause much suffering next winter,” says the Fort Wayne News “Whether there is a shortage ov not, the fact reinaims thas the bins of Fort Wayne coal dealers are pract!cally empty and little enconrugement is given as to wheg the orders will be Tilled. Hundrv:} of car loads of coal are being confiscated by the Pennsylvania railroad in order to keep the traing in operation and oth er railroads are doing the same, =~ “As a result of the coal situation many dealers are demanding cash. They are taking orders for futuré deliveries with the understanding that’ as soon as the coal s delivered they are to be paid in full.” ' - Up to this date Ligonisr . manufacturers have been able to procure coal -in car load lots but the local dealers do not seem so fortunate. " To Cure Tax Muddle. Cov. Goodrich and his republican henchmen have prepared a bill to legalize” the unconstitutional acts of the state tax board and to cure the defects -brought about by the arbitrary

action of the state tax commission. Just how they expect to make an unconstitutional act legal is ditficult to explain. . - N

- The administration measure will be presented to the special session of tre legislature for early action bu* It is doubtful if the proposition will succeed. The memebrs of the legislature will be a little slow to foilow the governor into further illegeir complications. W :

Officers Weaken, - When the five women from Elmira, LaGrange county, charged with profanity faced Justice Hissong he weakened and on motion of the prosecutor who had grown wabbly in tl'e knees dismissed the cases. . It was a neighborhood row in which Rachel Rasler, Bessie Rando!, Nina Coney, Inez Emerick and Ethel Dunstin participated. The fair ones promised to restrain their speech in fature, _ ' : - Another County Road. . The board of county commissioner: on Tuesday, August' 3, will receive sealed bids for the improvement of a township line highway between Washington and Noble townships. The highway is 2,712 feet in length and was petitioned for by Frank Wakeman anl others. The road is to be improved with gravel. e ; ;

Undergoes Operation. - -Miss Hazel Harrison of Columbia City, a well known musician, underwent an operation for appendicitis at St. Joseph hospital, Fort Wavne. Miss Harrison, daughter of Col. Joseph R Harrison of Columbia City, democratie candidate for congress in the Twelfth district has been teaching in the Gary schools. ‘ Miss Polloek Married. Helen Jeanette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Pollock of Angola was murried to Harry Holderness of E! Dorado Kansas, recently. She is a granddaughter of Mrs Martha Prickett and a niece of Mrs. Kvanna Swmith, of Ligoneir and a vers accoreplished young I(-.':_\' . e : ~ Breaks Arm in Fall. - Herbert Robinson, the plumber has a broken arm the result of a fall from a step ladder. - Mr. Robinson went out ‘Thursday evening to pick some cherries and fell to the ground, a distance of only a few feet. Drs. Hursey and Lane rendereed surgical attention.

» Loses Sight of One Eye. Dr. George E. Harter, an Elkhart dentist, lost the sight of one eye the otherday in a peculiar manner. He wears glasses and accidentally bumped into his automobile, cracking the lenses and a piece of the broken glass penetrated the eye ball. i Lose Money and Clothing. | Five girls occupying a cottage at 'Rome City lost their clothing and some ‘money while attending a dance ‘the other evening. The thieyes left no clue. Sheriff Black arrested one young fellow on a charge of gambling.

Steel Work Finished. .Steel work on the $75,000 auditorfum being erected at Winona Lake has been finished. The building will be dedicated August 13. Madame Amelita Galli-Curci, far-famed Italian prima ~_;tlgnna.. is to sing there Thursday, Aug. | Five Day Conference. A ftive day conference on rural education in Indiana ‘Will be held at Indiana auniversity, Bloomington, July 12-16. Large attendance is expected. TR asatet cvsms—— ; 3 g - Miss Lucy Probst, of Toledo is a guest at the Harry Spurgeon home.

LIGONIER. NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, TUESDAY JULY 13. 1920

* Death of Mrs. Seagley, ‘Mrs. Dale Seagley, aged about 32, and wife of one of the Seagley brothers doing 4 farm machinery business ir this city, died late Saterday evening at the family home in Topeka after a short illness. The lady was taken with a fit of vomiting and her physician administered a hyprodermic to stop it and death followed. ' e

Mre. Seagley's ill ness was of short duration. Her husband was in Ligonier Saturday looking after his business and did not know of the serious condition of his wife until his retura home. e .

The death cAme as a- great shocl to the Seagley family and the comcunfty. Surviving are the bereaved husband and a little son. The funeral will be held this Tuesday afternoon from the late home with burial in the Woodruff cemetery rear Wolcottville. - - ‘ Deßow the Best Man. Sack racesand boxing bouts were the feature of the annual Sunday school. pienie of the First Methodist Episcopal church at Dallas, Texas, Charles L. Deßow sends. the Standard a clipping from the Morning News telling of the affair. = Along down. in the middle of the article appear the following lines: “‘Come on preacher, put on the gloves,” and the bout started. Rev. Charles 1. Deßo® proved the best man.” . S .

Mr. Deßow writes the Standard that he expects to join his fumily at Goshen for the month of August anwill be in LaGrange on Sunday, Auggust 29, to see his friends.—LuGrange Standard. - . ' L

Death of Prominent Attorney. Philip- H. Wells, & prominent attorney of Rock, Island, 111, who has been visiting at the home of Mr. anil Mrs. J. E. Culver, passed away very unexpectedly about 3 o'clock Sunday morning. - Mr. Wells suffered a. nervous collapse several months ago. lu company with his mother Mrs. Howard Wells, he came to this city, Saturday. July 3, hoping that a changé of air and scene might prove beneficial to him. -He was forty-one years of age and is survivied by his mother, a wife and an aunt. Mrs. J. E. Culver is a cousin. ' Mrs. Wells left with hcr son's remains for Rock Island at 9:15 a. m. Mondey. . : - . Makes Big Catch, o . Attorney Otis Butt is more than a mere lawyer. He demonstrated this Sunday at Wawasee ‘where he caughi 13 bass the combined weight of which was 32 pounds. Mr. Butts' friends claim one. of the fish weighted 6% pounds, but old fishermen shake. their heads when the weight of -this fish is mentioned. Anyway Merle Herney says it was a big fish and looked like a whale. { 4 b ‘

- . Parole is Refased. John Peck who robbed the business place of Lester Bordner at Kimmfl last fall was denied a parole by t state board. He was sentenced on a plea of guilty in the- Noble circuit court to serve from one to fourteen years in the state reformatory, : The parole of Frank Humpnreys, also of Noble county, convicted of child desertion, was continued. Huhphreys who has had freedom, petitioned to be given a clear bill, Slabaugh Buys Properiy. Sidney Slabaugh, the well known farmer, Saturday purchased the Chas: Shobe residence on West Fourth street Mr. Slabaugh will get posscssion November Ist. Mr. Shobe has resided in the property for more than 20 yvears. He may puchase a smaller place. - The people of Ligonier will welcome Mr. and Mrs. Slabaugh to their midst. : BN - Ed is Lucky. il Ed Sisterhen, the shoe man is Incky. He went to the big meeting of Elks in Chicago last week and fell into the ‘best hotel accomodations in the city. ‘His friends told him when he went to town without any hotel reservation that he would probably sleep in the street, but he had no difficu!ty in procuring a choice room at on 2 of the leading hotels. .

Work on New Shop. Work on the foundation for the new blacksmith shop for- Will Hieber started Monday on the lot he recently acquired in the rear of the Weir & Cowley store. The building will be constructed of cement blocks and will be a substantial one. S : ~ —— N Heeter Loses $l2. Loren Heeter, manager of the Freess cram station is short $l2. He lost two fives and two ones while walking from the Farmers & Merchants Trust company to Stellar’'s meat market Saturday morning. i : . Was Big Gathering. ‘ The reunion of theTrittapoo family at the Diamond lake grove of Joseph Colwell Sunday brought together about 100 members from Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. The chief featurc { entertainment was a big basket IRI e 'THE STORE OF E. JACOBS & CO.

Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Koon spent Sunday #t Wolcottville. . ‘ Mrs. Chet Miller was a Sunday visitor to Elkhart ' - Clarence Steel, of Mishawaka was a 8 Sunday visitor in Ligonier. - - Attorney Otis Butt and family went to Wawasee and spent Sunday. : " "Mrs. Fred kmey is home from Fort Wayne where she visited a duughter. Doc Rex came from Whiting and visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. Otto Rex. - : 4 | Harry Men'ti.er' is giving the uncoln! Highway Garage frout a new coat of paint. = : : - William Clawson, of South Bend, spent Sunday visiting Ligonier relatives, ;

T. Burns, of Auburn was & week end visitor with Mr. and Mrs. Judscn Kitson. o i o Mrs. Sarah- Imes, of Brimfield, was a Friday guest of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clemens. e : = _ Mr. and Mrs. C}xr;sukh Mann were Sunday guests of their children in Elkh»art. - : ; ' Mrs. Minnie Huff. of Mishawaka was a week end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fisel. . - e Miss Blanch Harsh has gone to Elyria, Ohio, to visit her sister Mrs. Milo Terry. - = ; : Miss Hazel HST; has gone on =» visit to Crown Point with Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Harper, . . Dwight Holm has gonme to Misha‘waka to visit a week with Mr. and Mrs. Glen Stayton. Mrs. Frank Stage who had. been visiting ' her daughter in South Bend returned home.

‘Ralph Strait had business which called him to Detroit, Mith., the latter part of the week. ; : : B, F. Frownfelder, of Adrain, Mich.,, was a Sundiy guest of Miss Gladys Corneliug. = e Mr. and Mrs, W. H. Watson of Elkhart were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Inks. - - Mg . The _Miéses ‘Violet Karchner and Dessie Gordon visited. Mishawaka friends over Sunday. i " Billy Slabaugh of South Bend came over to visit relatives and enjoy an outing at Wawasee. ; : " George Buist was over from Fort Wayne auditing accounts fcr the Straus Brother s Co. ; . Judge Donald Latta has gong to Indianapolis to visit his uncle Will Latta the prominent attorney.

Mrs. Cecil Griffith and Miss Gladys Cornelius went to Adrain, Mich., Monday to visit Mrs." Perry Masten. ; - Mrs. Harry Albers and son William o'L_Wa?gknneu. Ohio, are hers guests of Mr."and Mrs. Lawrence Albers. Mr. and Mrs. Cal Johnson and two children of Kendallville were Sunday guests at the Sanger Smith home. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smalley and children, of Waterloo, came on a visit Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smauey. : Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Griftith of Strugis Mich.,.who had been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Griffith returned home Sunday. i S

Mrs. J. W. Minnis and Mrs. Carl Pawers and daughter of Elkhart were Saturday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Minnis and the new babe. H. F. Miller of the firm of Gutelius & Miller was here in charge of the § and 10 cent store while the manager Mort Long was visiting his father's farm. : : Miss Katherine Casey is back from a visit with friends at LaPorte and ‘Michigan City. She is spending her summer vacation with Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Bailey. _ : < It looks as though Former Governor Hanley, of Indiana, professional dry leader, had lined up with Mr. Harding, the republican nominee for president. This alliancé will not please Hanley's army of republican enemies in In-

‘Mr. and Mrs. Tim Cass and family came from South Bend Sunday and joined Messrs. and Mesdames Tom Cass, Charles Francisco and Will Casey on a picinic at Wawasee.. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Parker of Albion, join‘ed the party. : e

- LOCAL HAPPENINGS _ Mrs. C. G. Keehn visited friends in )lmonhug’ Monday. Arthur Ferguson went to Eilkhart Sunday and visited friends. : Henry Pronzh of LaGrange spent Sunday with m father Willis Prough. Mrs. Frank Gandy of Chicago was a Sunday guest of Mr. and Mrs. Will Davis and family. 7 _ Miss Murfel Vance who had been a guest at the Sanger Smith home, returned to South Bend . Mrs. Charles Lockwood, of Grand Rapids, Mich., is a guest of Mr. and -Mrs. Curtis Williams. . » . Some one took Avery Stark's young goslings and now he threatens to prosecute the offender. = “ Mr. and Mrs. Fayette Lepird huend-i ed the reunion of the Alva McGuin fhini_ly Sunday at Albion. - * - | ~ Miss Mabel Strait who had been home an a visit has returned to her employment in Elkhart. » Miss Thala Ramsby of Citizens Bank, spent Saturday and Sunday with South Bend relatives. ; Mrn John Summem came from Kendallville and visited over Sunday with her daughter Mrs. Earl James. Mr. and Mrs. Harry' McGuin, of Rockford, 111,. were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fayette Lepird . Miss Ruth Smith who is attending Angola college spent Sunday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Smith. - Mrs. E. G. Franks and little som are spending a week in New Carlisle with her sister Mrs. A. J. Kern and family. _ . . : . Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Reés and little son of Chicago, are here on _a two weeks' vacation visiting Grandma e : Representative Hoffman left for Indianapolis Sunday evening to attend the second special session of the legislature. .

The Misses Lenore Moyer and Hazel McDowell came from - Elkbart ufl! spent Sunday with Mr. and Nrs. James McDowell. | . Mr. and Mrs. Bert Mayfield are here on a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Earnhart and Mr. and Mrs. Geoge Gale at Kimmell. :w -Miss Mary O'Conner and two nieces o' Elkhart, visited Mr. anu Mrs. Al Yorßey over Sunday. Miss O'Conner will also visit in- Ohio. Mrs. Louis Dunning and daughter Hazel came fromi Plymouth to spend a few days with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Draper end other relatives. . Carlyle Latta leaves today for Indianapolis where he will- spend the summer. He is a student in DePauw university and is on his wvacation.

. Mrs. E. T. Howard, of South Bend, Miss Mpyrtle Mallory, LaFayette, and Dan B. Cooke, of Cleveland, Ohioc, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Warstler. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Forest Wright of Hitksville, Ohio, are guests at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Ainsworth Bassett. Mr. Wright is a brother of Mrs. Bassett. : - Mr. and Mrs.. Will Forder and family Mr. and -Mrs. Ivan Lantz and Mr. and Mrs. Jahn Angel, all of Hicksville, Ohio, were guests at the Diamond lake cottage of C. C. Ullery Sunday.

- Miss Irma Sorgenfrei has accepted a position in the offices of the Bryan Garage. The young lady was a member of the 1920 gradunating class of the Ligonier high school. . : - Mr. and Mrs. Sam Selig, Mrs. Julia Marx, Harry Lowenstein and Milton Rosenwald motored to Culver Sunday and spent the day with Leonard Selig who is attending the military school Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Denning and little daughter Emman Jean, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jackson drove to Traverse City Mich., to visit Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Jackson. The former city councilman will no doubt have a fish story when he arrives home.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wagoner were in Elkhart Thursday visiting their son Dean and wife and consulting M. Wagoner’s physician. The well known blacksmith was advised that he might resume work within a week or ten days. He underwént a serious surgical operation some weeks ago.

MR. AND MRS. ISAAC ROSE AT HOME to their friends, on Sunday the eightebnth of July, from eight to ten, in honor of their son’s engagement to Miss Phyliss Reger-™—--.

THE TAX MUDDLE

Supreme Court Decislon Redaces Revenue of Taxiag Units Throaghout the State ™ = =

-~ According to the supreme cosri dscision annulling the action oL the state tax board in making horizouial raises in the asscs®mazt Jhaa of taxes a good many taxpaye-» have a rebate coming and most of the coiritii and municipal and school corparat o will face ajdeficit in their rivoru- - - It is a bad mixup for whch ‘o special sessfon of the legieiatar s ex’ pected to work onut a solution - Counties, cities and school cor. porations levied taxes on the valiza tions placed by th: ulute board anv now the action of the «upr mie ¢ .yt has lowered the appraoiscment trom 10 to 50 per cent. el : “The state tax commission by iis arrogance and assuuption of anthority has muddled the tix rate: from the first and absolutely r fused v Lidion to counsel and reas .o ad the peis g unfortunate muddle is th» risu't Sofe units .are bonded now Ui the consiitutional limit and eaanot =ell. more bonds to ‘mect deficits.. The. only recourse is. teporary loans unless the legisiature can figure oi! sowe means uf relief. e - |

View 1s Rather Gloomy. {Wawaka Correspondent)

Hayving was put out of coarafssion the past thiree days by the Loavy rairs Cherries are abundant ‘not enong! pickers and many will rot on tree. Labor as usual s nonexistent although farmers and farmers’ wives are strenuously working. Many villager« have trees of their own and arc care fully caring for them, Scarcity of labor is begining to be the curse -of this country. Although many are not aware of it there are many acres untilled this year that were in crop: last year. One. farm of 169 in LaGrange county is all in grass Fieldx were mot rented because everybody was too busy to take them over. Family lives on the farm and are not able to do the farming. Between here and Millersburg there are seventen empty houses with garden plots un‘ouched - just weeds. growing where garden crops should be. Others cannct attend to them. But why worry? Same old story I suppose of the grasshopper and the bee. Time will work out the problem as it has Since year of one.

Give Money to Ameriean Legion.

Eighteen thousand dollars, which remains in the treasury of the United war work organizaltion in Jackson county, will be divided between the American Legion posts in Seymour and Brownstown, if the plan of L. C. Griffiths, chatrman, and Nathan Kauffman, treasurer of the organization, Is carried out. The money is a part of $40,000 raised by general taxation during the world war for various organizations, which were engaged in relief work. ‘ ‘ The officers of the organization say that the money was raised to provid: comforts for American soldiers while they were overseas and now that they have returned it should be used for similar purposes in this community. The Seymour Legion Post expects tc get back of a movement for a com‘munity house and already has a small fund in reserve for this purpose. If money is obtained from the war work surplus it will be added to the building fund. - -

Will Exhibit at Falr.

Representatives of the Noble County Big Type Poland China Breeder's association and the Noble County Short horn club, the committe being Jacx Buckles of Kimmel, Fred Spurgeon of Wawaka, and Frank Lemmon of Albion inet recently with County Agent Widney. An agreement was reached whereby the Poland China breeders will exhibit not less than twenty-five pigs in a futurity contest at the Kendallville fair, and the shorthorn clup will exhibit not less than ten calves in the futurity contests to be staged a the fair, premiums amounting O $l3O-in the pig contest and sls¢ in the calf contest were arranged for.

World’s Deepest Gas ’Well,

The world's deepest producing natural gas well is located about sixty feet from the edge of the Lincoln Highway near Ligonier in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania. This well with a depth of 6,680 teetfiows 500, 000 feet of natural gas per day, and is one of the interesting sights inspected by tourists on the transcontinental road in the Keystore state. Ligonier, Indiana, was namred after the historic Pennsylvania town.

Own Prize Pig. & s A. E. Lemmon & Sons of Albion have become the owners cf a fine young boar out of Passport, the largest hog in the United States. The boar is considered a fine specimen by the best judges.r The owners have been offcred $2,000 -exceeding their purchase price for it. The hog was purchased at Winchester, Ind., by ‘mere chance. It will be on exhibition at the state fair this fall. e FOR SALE-Fine open faced gold watch, railway timer 21 jewels, al most new. Big bargain if taken at once. Johu Hays. 2

TUESDAY "FRIDAY

VOL. 54 NO. 19A

IPEGIAL SESSION i e : SURDENS OF TANPAYERS MNILTI PLYING UNDER GOODRICH : MISRULE - : 10 GOCTOR UP THE TAX LAW Would Legalize Uncontitutivanl \ctlon + by Further Special Legivatlon What vih the fty ia th: ~h-at e army vorm in thee orn agd this price { o} clrat y e e the ptiepce. of h FATRI Y s ratud to - ihe -limit faad pow Con JlothC special rewnion L ate Tz slaa ty -t the t: Vhaders DroreiLeng 1o $75:000 i tarmase e the bory a 0 cannot Pl claxes, s . property In " the main is in sight and open to the view of the assessor. Afid he views these special legislative sessions with alarm- and disgust When the assessor placed a value of 160 per ceut on his farm lands and -his personal property he did not much vind [ verything. clse b ing high o .expertzd Ngh taxes. . Then whin he ftate tax commission arbitrarily raised his assessments from 10 to 50 per cent hé had a real grievance as “Yery taxpayer had. ' In many instances throushout the state grain was assessed higher by <5 per cent than it could be sold for in the market and live stock received the same treatment. :

- Some counties employed the only recourse open to them: they went to law. The supreme court of thestate decided in their favor and now there is hob’ to pay. - Some refused to pay the unjst tax while others paid under protest, = e W

“Under the raling of the supreme court the county treasure are holding money which belongs to the tax payers and this money must be renvaed . =

~When the legislature held a special session some mounths ago these conditions existed. The fact that there were no funds to maintain the state institutions was known to the governor and state officers but Gov. Goodrich insisted that these matters e not touched for the reason that something might develop to embarrass the party in power in the primary elections, Gov. Goodrich had presidential aspirations, but now that he has been defeated in his political aims ke has called the second special scssion to appropriate funds for the penal and benevolent instutions. The only actio: he desires on the tax muddl e is to lealize the gction of the state tax commission which pade uncontitutional tax levies. - : .

“The preesnt legisiture is strongly republican in both branches and Gov. Goodrich has had no difficulty in handfing the members of his pelitical faith thus far and he may be able to continue ,although some doubht is expressed. The candidates on.the state republican ticket are furious over Goodrich domnition and threaten to break out of the reservation. .

In the meantime expenses. uszless in their nature, are being piled upon the tax payers of the state. Goodrich may prove as great a Jonah to the party as did Hanley.

Wedding Dinner. ‘Mr. Vincent Renner and Miss Josephine Eben of Canton, Ohio, were married at Cassopolis, Mich., Friday July 9. - Buel Miller and Miss Doris Murphy of South Bend were married at Ligoneir Saturday July 10., both couples arriving at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Milo Renner Saturdey where a fine dinner was awaijting them. The table was decorted with pink rambler roses and two large wedding cakes, one for each bride. ‘The out of town guest were: Mrs. Susan Renner, Mrs. Eben, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Renner, and daughter, Misses Lizzie and Gloria Renner, Russel, Salone and Wallace Renner all of Canton, Chio. Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Renner of near Ligomier and. Mrs. L J. Miller and family of Ligonier were alep present. ; Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Renner a cousin of Milo Renner left with his bridal party directly after dinner for their home in Canton by auto accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Renner who will visil relatives in Ohio a week e : - Mr. and Mrs. Buel Miller, brother of Mrs. Milo Renner, left Sunday evening for South Bend where they will make their home until spring when they will join Mr. Miller's sister Miss Blanche

All enjoyed a fine ' dinner with wishes for both couples'a very happy wedded life. - Miss Blanche Miller is spending ~her summeér in Spoakane, Wash., and will spend this winter in California/ she will spend at least two years T ""’ " : 3 ¥ o - Photographs Hiecber’s Stadie. 4 e